How To Promote Adolescents Resilience

How to promote adolescents resilience

It is a fact that difficult problems and situations cannot always be avoided, which, in addition, is not recommended. Adolescence is a particularly complicated stage, so it is important to develop the ability to face adversities and know how to recover behind them. Continue reading and discovers how to encourage adolescents.

‘If you fell yesterday, get up today.’ 

What is resilience?

The origin of the study of resilience in social sciences comes from efforts to know the risk of children in developing psychopathologies;Due to mental illnesses of parents, prenatal problems, interpersonal conflicts, among others.

The results on these studies show that the development of resilience helps to successfully face adverse stress and events.

Resilience is a complex concept and there is no clear consensus among experts about its definition. However, there is a certain agreement in an issue: resilience means effectively dealing with risk and adversities.

The most successful definition to date is the one proposed by Psychology Professor Norman Garmerzy;which defines resilience as the ability to recover and maintain adaptive behavior after abandonment or a stressful event.

In short, resilience is the ability to ‘recover’ after difficult times;and adapt to adversities, even learning from them.

‘A problem is an opportunity to do my best’ -duke ellington-

How to develop adolescents resilience?

All teenagers can develop resilience;through learning social and planning skills, the development of healthy self – esteem and establishing positive thinking:

Social skills learning. Knowing how to make friends and keep them, know how to solve conflicts and know how to work in teams are some skills that lead to develop resilience. In addition, if the teenager is able to establish relationships and connections in their environment, it will have more opportunities to build good relationships.

Establish positive thinking habits. People who have resilience think rationally and try to look at the positive side of adversities. Stay and move on even when things are wrong. Adolescence is the stage in which we learn that difficult situations and problems are part of life.

Develop healthy self – esteem. Key to lay the bases of resilience. In this way, the teenager respects himself and others. Therefore, he believes that others must also treat it with respect too;And it will be less vulnerable in front of bullying.

Mark goals, objectives and plans. Resilience means feeling confidence about oneself. Knowing how to organize and develop planning skills, keep you prepared for hard work. To do this, adolescents must enhance their strengths and know their limitations.

Therefore, a resilient teenager is not only able to face difficult situations and know how to recover behind them;but he will also be able to adapt to the different adversities and obstacles that he will be in his life. It is essential that young people are able to develop resilience and adaptability from an early age to be able to face a society as competitiveness as ours.

‘In the midst of difficulty lies the opportunity.’ -Albert Einstein-